Pange

Pange
Commune
The chateau in Pange The chateau in Pange
Coat of arms of Pange Coat of arms
Country	France
Region	Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine
Department	Moselle
Arrondissement	Metz
Canton	Le Pays Messin
Intercommunality	Haut Chemin - Pays de Pange
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Roland Chloup
Area1	8.57 km2 (3.31 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2018)2
INSEE/Postal code	57533 / 57530
Elevation	212–289 m (696–948 ft) (avg. 300 m or 980 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Pange (French pronunciation: ​[pɑ̃ʒ]; German: Spangen an der Nied) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

The commune was the fief acquired in 1745 by the Thomas family, a family ennobled in 1626 by Charles IV of Lorraine and whose lands were elevated to marquisate in 1766 by Stanisław Leszczyński. Among others, it includes:

• Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas Thomas de Pange (1727–1774), French general

• Anne-Louise de Domangeville (1762–1799), his daughter, survivor in extremis of the Terror, wife of the following

• François de Pange (1764–1796), first cousin of the previous one and her husband, journalist in favor of a constitutional monarchy

• Jacques Thomas de Pange (1770–1850), brother of the previous one, officer and politician under the Empire, the restoration and the July Monarchy

• Marie Louis Thomas de Pange (1763–1797), elder brother of the previous ones, officer and counter-revolutionary, assassinated in Vendée

• Jean de Pange (1881–1957), historian and supporter of the European idea

• Pauline de Broglie (1888–1972), wife of the previous one, woman of Letters

• Jean de Pange (1917–1999), former pilot of Normandie Niémen

See also

• Communes of the Moselle department